Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify in a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing today at 1:30 pm ET.
His testimony will focus on the White House’s budget request in the Big Beautiful Bill, which includes $500 million to complete his MAHA objectives.
Earlier on Wednesday, Kennedy testified on the budget requests before the House Appropriations Committee.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, he schooled purple-haired Rep. Rosa DeLauro in an epic exchange after she tried to blame him for the spread of measles across the country.
RINO Bill Cassidy is expected to be the GOP’s strongest opposition to Kennedy in today’s Senate hearing. It can be recalled that Cassidy, who infamously voted to impeach President Trump following the J6 protests, was considered a swing vote on Kennedy’s nomination due to concerns over RFK’s views on vaccines.
PBS reports:
Kennedy will make his first appearance as health secretary before Cassidy’s powerful Senate health committee on Wednesday, when he’s expected to face intense scrutiny about the thousands of job he’s eliminated at the Department of Health and Human Services, the steep cuts he’s made to vaccination campaigns and his response to a measles outbreak that’s sickened 1,000 people.
He will speak about the agency’s budget request for the year, which includes a $500 million boost for his “Make America Healthy Again” initiative to promote nutrition and healthier lifestyles. The proposed budget also makes deep cuts, including to infectious disease prevention, maternal health and preschool programs.
The secretary plans to “share his vision on how HHS’ transformation will improve health outcomes, eliminate redundancies to save the American taxpayer, and streamline operations to improve efficiency and service,” HHS said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Kennedy’s supporters, meanwhile, have viewed his first three months in the job as a successful delivery of “MAHA” agenda items: He’s pressured food companies to ditch artificial dyes, promised to study the cause of autism, vowed to reverse fluoride recommendations and earned buy-in from several Republican governors to ban soda from the food stamp program, for example.
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